Worksheet exercise to illustrate the accounting for the Merck/Schering-Plough reverse merger.Learning Objective: To …

Students have to identify the acquirer in a business combination structured as a reverse merger.Learning Objective …

We investigate the impact of cartel breakdowns on merger activity. Merging information on cartel cases decided by the … European Commission (EC) between 2000 and 2011 with a detailed data set of worldwide merger activity, we find that, first, the … average number of all merger transactions increase by up to 51 percent when comparing the three years before the cartel …

Porsche announced a merger that will add Porsche as a tenth brand to VW's stable, which already includes Audi AG, Bentley …. This case describes the context leading to the merger, the battle between the two iconic German companies, as well as the …

boost prices and reduce consumer welfare. But no merger has been litigated on this basis due to a lack of empirical evidence … firm. First, I find strong and causal evidence that the merger has enabled higher prices for the incumbent. Mergers with … change market concentration, I report a large post-merger increase in the market concentration. To explain it, I introduce …